Disclaimer: No, I don't own Digimon!!

Forever Friends,

Forever Digidestined

By emichii.

Hi!! Welcome to Forever Friends, Forever Digidestined!! It's my 8th digimon fanfic! 10th, if you count the crossovers too. Anyway… this is a humor/romance fic with a big theme on friendship… but mostly humor!! Eh heh… being the taiora fan I am, there'll probably be a whole lot of taiora happening later on, I'm also considering some koumi, but we'll wait and see what happens!

Read and review!!! Here's the first episode!

Episode 1: The promise!!

"Before anything else, the Digidestined will be friends forever! Whether it is love or romance, or anything else, we'll put our friendship first!! Ain't that right?" Tai said.

Matt gave Tai a weak smile. "If you say so, Tai." he said coolly.

Sora smiled brightly. "I think it's a great idea!"

"…"Mimi bit her lip. "What do you mean, Tai? I don't really get it."

"Well…" started Tai.

Matt butted in, "What he means is that, since all of us have become such great friends when we became the Digidestined, when we return home and resume our old lives again, we'll all still be friends. Even when things like love start butting into it, we'll keep our friendship no matter what!" said the Digidestined with the crest of Friendship.

"Oh…" Mimi said, sounding as though she understood, but she really didn't. "Well, sure!" She added quickly.

Joe spoke, "I don't know where you guys are going with this-"

"Shut up, Joe!" T.K cried cheerfully, "that's not the point!"

"Sure, Tai," Izzy told his friend, "I think that's a good idea. We'll always put friendship before anything else."

"Hey, wait-" Joe tried to say something.

"Do we all promise?" Tai asked.

"I PROMISE!!" The seven voices of them all yelled out loud, together in unison, though Joe's was mostly a whisper.

Yes… we'll always be together… and we'll always be friends… always…

Huh… yeah, right.

The soccer ball bounced off the wall and hit the floor again hard, bouncing a couple of times. Fifteen-year-old Tai Kamiya, sighed, and running a hand through his poofy brown hair, carefully rolled the ball back towards his feet.

"Tai!! Hey, Tai!" A familiar voice came to his ears, accompanied by the sound of footsteps on the stairs.

Tai looked up as his bedroom door opened and Sora stood in the doorway, out of breath and hair in her face.

"…hey, Sora. Whassup?" he asked curiously.

Sora grinned at Tai. "Guess what?"

"What?"

"I was just doing some ikebana the other day when I remembered that promise we all made a coupla years ago." Sora said thoughtfully.

Tai knew what she was talking about but pretended not to know. "…what promise?" he asked as he booted the ball against the wall again and watched it roll back.

"You know the one!! We'll always put friendship before anything else! And the Digidestined will always be friends, before love, or romance, or… other stuff!"

"Oh… yeah. That one." Tai said.

Sora gave him a beautiful smile, cheeks flushed pale pink. "I'm glad you remember!"

Tai looked over at Sora. "So… that's what you came over here to tell me?"

Sora considered this. "Yeah, I guess so."

She turned around to leave, but then whirled around as though she had just remembered something. "Oh! I forgot…" she ran over to Tai and hugged him. "Thanks for being my best friend!! Your friendship is one of the things I treasure most, Tai!"

She turned and left his room. Her face was warm, and she stared at the steps, while she ran down them as fast as she could.

Tai watched the door slam behind her as she left, eyes widened. He felt a blush creep over his face.

Why? He slowly put his hand up to his cheek and felt how warm it was. Why was it that this was happening? Why did those words seem to pierce his heart?

He stared forlornly at the closed door.

And why am I blushing?

"Before anything else, the Digidestined will be friends forever! Whether it is love or romance, or anything else, we'll put our friendship first!!"

If only… I had known just how hard this was gonna be…

Yeah, it was a short chappie. But that's okay!! There'll be plenty more to come!! Thanks for reading! And don't forget to review!